The NRC commissioners are reviewing a proposed regulation that would require almost a third of the nation's reactors to install a special device to prevent radioactive releases.
The U.S. nuclear industry opposes the rule.

On April 26th, 2012 -- the 26th annual commemoration of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe -- the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee passed a bill that would authorize and fund a "pilot" program for "consolidated interim storage" of high-level radio